Author: Pallaborative North West

Pallaborative North West is a collaboration of health care professionals working in specialist palliative care across the North West of England. We are committed to improving the quality of care for anyone with advanced progressive disease and to ensure care is based on the best and most up to date evidence possible

We realise that everyone will be so busy at the moment in local services as we try our best to prepare for the next few weeks. Palliative care will be come more important than ever as we all do our best to deliver the best care possible for many patients and those important to them… Read More

In light of everything that is happening with COVID-19 it seems only sensible and appropriate to cancel our regional audit meeting on 26th March 2020. Unfortunately we don’t think our remote access is established enough to run it as virtual meeting. As you know this would have been our launch meeting for 2021 and we… Read More

Management of symptoms in patients who are in the last days of their life can be very challenging particularly respiratory tract secretions. In May 2019 our Guideline Development Groups presented the up to date evidence base for just how to best to manage this symptom with some suggested changes to what has been usual practice… Read More

With the recent success of the Critical Care Guideline Development Group we thought you might welcome the opportunity to see the literature review that was presented in 2019. If you missed the posts from last week check out the wonderful news from Dr Steele about his prize winning abstract

Well done to Dr Tom Steele who is the Winner of the SAS Doctor Abstract Prize at the Palliative Care Congress in Telford happening in March 2020. Entitled ” Caring for dying patients in critical care settings: survey of palliative care and critical care practices and perspectives” the work fought off stiff competition to claim… Read More

Congratulations to Dr Kat Moss and members of the Anticoagulation Guideline Decelopment Group who have had suucess in their submission to the Turner Warwick Lecture scheme for 2020 The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Turner-Warwick lecturer scheme for trainee physicians is now in its second year. Celebrating the life and achievements of the RCP’s first female… Read More

If you want to share how the audit and guideline work has helped you in your clinical practice we would love to feature you on our testimonial page. Just a couple of paragraphs or something that is a bit longer- its your choice,. A great opportunity to share with others the difference it makes. Please… Read More

Time is running out to have your say about the challenges in palliative care that you think we need to focus on in in our 2021 programme Below is a link to our annual survey Pallaborative North West 2020 Survey for Priority Topics It only takes 5 minutes to complete and we would be really… Read More

Data collection for our second clinical audit of 2020 – Continuous Subcutaneous Infusions- is now underway. The survey remains open until the 28th February 2020. Your Clinical Leads and Steering Group representative should now have circulated details of the survey and the links that you need to submit your clinical cases.. If you haven’t heard… Read More

Congratulations to the Guideline Development Group for Symptom Control and Critical Care. They have had an abstract accepted for poster presentation at the 2020 Palliative Care Congress 19-20 March in the Telford International Centre You can access their abstract here Symptom control medication for patients dying in Critical Care: systematic review of the literature and… Read More